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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
craignewmark ("Craig Newmark") wrote:
50 years ago I joined the grown up workforce, with IBM in Florida.
I was working on a (doomed) mini-computer, the Series/1 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%5FSeries/1). My only contribution was saying that we should work with AT&T Bell Labs to port Unix (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix) over. I couldn't sell the idea, nor could anyone else, and IBM lost a chance to dominate the computer industry.
Anyway, 50 years, that's motivated some big decisions regarding my philanthropy.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/my-first-day-work-50-years-ago-today-craig-newmark-vxvvc/
More to come...